Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) In this section
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operations area —
(a) in
relation to an operator who is a permittee, lessee or licensee, means the
permit area, lease area or licence area as the case may be; and
(ba) in
relation to an operator who is an infrastructure licensee, means the
infrastructure licence area; and
(b) in
relation to an operator who is a pipeline licensee, means the part of the
adjacent area in which the pipeline is constructed; and
(c) in
relation to an operator who is the holder of a special prospecting authority
or access authority, means the area in respect of which that authority is in
force;
operator means a permittee, lessee, licensee,
infrastructure licensee, pipeline licensee or holder of a special prospecting
authority or access authority.
(2) An operator shall
maintain in good condition and repair all structures, equipment and other
property in the operations area and used in connection with the operations in
which he is engaged.
(3) An operator shall
remove from the operations area all structures, equipment and other property
that are not either used or to be used in connection with the operations in
which he is engaged.
(4) Subsections (2)
and (3) do not apply in relation to any structure, equipment or other property
that was not brought into the operations area by or with the authority of the
operator.
Penalty for an offence under subsection (2) or
(3): a fine of $10 000.
[Section 98 amended: No. 12 of 1990 s. 216; No. 28
of 1994 s. 106; No. 42 of 2010 s. 134.]